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Good luck with your pup prospect next spring. I was in that situation this past spring with a retired 12 yr old and "young" one approaching 9. I started the looking process, figuring it might take a year or more to find the right combination of availability and lineage. And then I lucked out...

My Pair-of-labs name should now be Tre-of-labs as I added pup Tucker to the crew in April. I'll be back to two on the hunting trip this season. Senior citizen Parker (12) retired before last season. Tom

The combination of good weather, good flyfishing with dry flies, total isolation at the lake, and no mosquitoes made it one of my top 3 backpacking trips ever. From the time we left the truck until the time we got back on the 5th day, the only person we saw (once) was a guy driving a logging...

Even at that altitude it was getting up to the mid-70s. Luckily the trout were very cooperative with dry flies. I's especially fun when you can sight-fish for them and watch their reactions to the fly.

Just got back from a 5 day backpacking/flyfishing trip in the Rawah Wilderness in NW Colorado. That's just south of where the BritChaser was going in WY. I'm trying to follow Clint Eastwood's saying, "Don't let the old man in". That was my second backpacking trip this summer and hope to continue...

Speaking of Hen, Hen. Two years ago I took one of my neighbors with me to eastern CO. He had hunted with me once before, about my age (70 now). He was to my right. A bird gets up between us and I yelled hen, hen! BOOM. He shoots and misses. I walk over and questioned why he shot. He said "I...

I missed the Colorado dove opener. I was flyfishing at a 10,700 ft lake on a 5 day backpacking trip.

My retired lab, Parker, had several water retrieves in ND and SD. Like Hunt1GSP said, lightly hit ones can really scoot through the water using their wings as paddlewheels.

That makes me thirsty for a beer just thinking about it.

As my picture and screen name show, I have been a two lab guy. Actually it is now 3 as my new 8 week old pup has aged to 6 months. My senior citizen, Parker the Bird Horse, is 12 and retired from hunting. I usually hunted Parker and Brady, now 8, as alternating in different fields when...

Browning Bird-n-Lite strap vest for me. My wife sewed a velcro patch on the front of the left strap to hold my E-collar transmitter. Works great.

Three different breeders, and that makes 8 different breeders for 8 labs. Parker on the right is 85 and keeping him pretty lean due to deteriorating back legs. Little Brady in the middle is 60. I think Tucker will end up around 70 ish. Parker and Brady both point, too soon to tell about...

Little Tucker joins the fleet, becoming yellow lab #8

Did the quail hold for the long walk in? Both my labs point but are what I call "close pointers"- the bird, in the few times it holds, is usually about 10 inches from their nose.

I just mentioned in a previous post that my older lab Parker retired before this season. A couple of weeks ago I went down into the basement for something and it smelled. I thought my floor drain P-trap had dried out so filled it with water. The next morning I was down there and the smell...

Great looking pup. I just met my first Pudelpointer in person out hunting this past season. She was with a friend of a friend and he had a GSP. also. We only did a couple of fields with them and as usual the birds in eastern CO were scarce so I didn't get to see her do much other than going...

Late post. I loved the glove stories. I'll admit to being a glove nut and probably have 10 pairs in my kit box. I almost always wear gloves, usually just thin soft leather types unless it's below 30. Then maybe thin leather on my shooting hand and a warmer one on my left hand. I'm always...

Good info guys. I lost my lab for 90 minutes in a standing cornfield in NoDak in October. That was a first for me and got me to looking at the various Garmin systems. Several of my pointer friends have the Alpha 100. I was leaning toward the Alpha 10 and would probably have bought one except...

I am so sorry about your home Matt. I live in Aurora and did not hear about the fire until about 8:30 that night and watched the coverage in horror as it played out. I reload only 12GA. Send me a PM with your cell and we can talk about what I can help you out with. Tom